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The Motley Fool April 14, 2010 Morgan Housel	Bailout Cost Plummets: Good News? It seems the bailouts taxpayers ponied up to save the financial system are going to cost a lot less than we thought.
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The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Morgan Housel	Accountants Bail Out the Treasury Saving money that was never there. If Washington could focus on real ways to reduce the deficit -- not just saving money by not spending money that was never there -- we'd appreciate it.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	Where Did All the Bailout Money Go? Now that several banks have repaid taxpayers about $70 billion of the $700 billion bank bailout know as TARP, a common question is: "Great, now where's the other $630 billion?" The answer isn't as clear-cut as many may assume.
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Rebecca Christie	TARP Didn't Bust the Bank The much-maligned bailout program made money on most Wall Street investments and cost less than expected.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Morgan Housel	What's Clearly Wrong With the Bank Tax If the bank tax were presented as a way to compensate taxpayers for programs like TLGP, we'd have no problem. Instead, it's been presented as a way to recoup money that, to be fair, has already been recouped. That makes the whole thing look groundless and vengeful.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Morgan Housel	Farewell, Dear Bailout Almost a year to the day after the Treasury dumped tens of billions into banks, the heart of the $700 billion bank bailout called TARP is coming to an end. How did it do?
The Motley Fool August 26, 2009 Morgan Housel	Small Victories for Taxpayers It's hard to argue that we haven't come a long way since the days of last fall, when saying the TARP plan would cost taxpayers $700 billion drew so much attention. It wasn't true then, and it's undeniably false now.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz	Bailouts: The Final Word We should be doing everything we can now to prevent the possibility of ever having to have another TARP program.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Russ Krull	Betting on Bailouts Using the recent U.S. bailout track record as a guide for investing in Europe.
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The Motley Fool June 14, 2010 Russ Krull	The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments.
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The Motley Fool April 3, 2009 Morgan Housel	More Proof Banks Will Exploit This Bailout This takes abusing the system to a whole new level.
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010	Where Did the TARP Money Go? Love it or hate it, TARP didn't bust the bank. Here's where the money went.
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The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier	GAO to Paulson: Get Your TARP in Order The Government Accountability Office chides the Treasury Department for failing to address a number of key issues with respect to the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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The Motley Fool April 21, 2010 John Rosevear	General Motors Still Owes You GM's ability and willingness to pay its debt now could well be a sign that GM's financial picture, believed to be looking up after a $4.3 billion post-bankruptcy loss in 2009, is solidly on track. Or, it could also be a sign of something else.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Morgan Housel	Will This Plan Save the Banks? Treasury Secretary Geithner discloses revamped government plans -- or lack thereof.
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The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Citi's Race Against Time Bank of America's recent move has left Citi scrambling.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Morgan Housel	TARP's Problem Children Forty-six banks not only still hold funds, but aren't paying the preferred dividends they owe.
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The Motley Fool March 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	Pros and Cons of the New Bank Plan After a long wait, the details of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new plan to rid banks of toxic assets actually aren't half bad. Read on for the details.
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The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Morgan Housel	Pardon Me, George Soros Clearing up misconceptions about TARP.
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The Motley Fool December 15, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Wells Fargo Goes Off the Cliff Once Bank of America and Citigroup announced that they were repaying the government's TARP investments, it was only matter of time before Wells Fargo did the same.
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